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A MOTHER'S DIAIiY.
Morning I Baby on the floor,
Making for tho fonder,
Sunlight seems to make it sneeze;
Buby “on a bender," •
All the spools upset and gone,
Clmirs drawn into tile,
Harness strings all strung across,
Ought to make one smilo.
Apron dean, curls snn olh, eyes blue
(How those charms will dwindle)
For I rather think don’t you
- is a swindle?
Noon 1 A tatig'cd, silken floss
Getting in bine eve*;
Apron that will not keep clean,
If a baby tries.
Onublue shoo untied, and ono
Underneath tho table;
Chairs gono mad, and blocks and toys,
Well ivs they are able;
Baby in a high clmlr, too,
Veiling for his dinner;
Spoons iu mouth; 1 think—don't, you
Baby “is a sinner?"
Night ! Chairs all sot hack again,
Blocks and spools in order;
One blue shoe beneath the mat
Tells of a marauder;
Apron folvkjqpm a chair,
i’laid dress torn and wrinkled,
Two pink feet kicked pretty bare,
Little fat knees crinkled;
In his crib ar.d conquered, too,
By sleep, blessed evangel,
Now I think—don’t yon—
Baby is an angel ? •
Wit and Humor,
rut the arm-chair in the attic -
Jt has earned its needed rest;
For the pair it oft supported
Now has married and gone West.
Drawing materials—Corkscrews.
Hop merchants —Dancing masters.
Why is kissing like a sewing ma
chine? Because it seems gootl.
Nature saw the bicycle in the dim
iuturc when she created a bow-leg
ged man.
Spots on tha son arc sometimes
fivckl sand sometimes photographs
of a moth r loving but weighty hand.
It is pitiful to sec a bald Leaded
nan hunting for the parting on his
bead lie sings, -there's no place like
Lome."
The individual who first exclaim
<ed “My soul be on thy guard,”
was probably sfc‘ pping along a dark
.-alloy lined with baunana skins.
Tib* Jbuir of a ktdy In Montpelier,
Vt., turaefl white in a single night.
She fell. 'ifii.to a tlour barrel.
Henry Goilnose Bailey is the name
of a bov in Springfield. O. If xvc were
your parent, Henry Godnose we’d
knock your middle natae out of you.
A Sc Louis lady who had gradua
ted at three seminaries tried to send
a baiidbox by telegraph the o;her
day.
A new pair of shoos came home
jbr a little five-year old. He tried
(hem on, and Sliding his feet in close
quarters, exclaimed,‘Oh, my! they
are so tight I wink my toes.”
Young indies who wish to have
small mouths are advised to repeat
this at frequent intervals during the
day: “Fanny Finch hied five floun
dering frogs for Frances Fowler’s
fulher, ’
A young lady remarked that sho
and her beau could both ride.—
Being a*ked where her fellow should
sit site emphatically remained, ‘‘On
the tittle wheel behind, of course.'
Atul still men keep on marrying.
lie told her that he loved her,
Iu tones so soft and mellow;
But she said she couldn’t marry him,
For sire had asked another fellow.
A young lady sent a poem entitled,
1 I cannot Make Him Smile,” to a
British-newspaper. The editor ven
lures to express the opinion that she
would have succeeded had she shown
ban the poem.
“Dad if it’s so it juroious to smoke
■why don’tchimneys get sick and die ?”
The old gentleman merely replied
that he wished he had a trunk-strap
handy.
JJisa vp ya vgilaut little thing,
And crow as y,c ne’er crew I
This country wants to hear you siug
• ‘Hancock-a-doodle-do !’
Now slant your hackles, clear your throat,
And split your head in two;
Ring out your shrillest, sharpest note;
* ‘Ha n cock riv-rJ,0,0 dle.d of"
One can't have everything in tliis
world he wants. Rife is like a blan
ket that is 100 short. If you pull it
over your shoulders you uncover voijr
feet, and if you cover your feet your
shoulders must be bare. However,
pomp people manage to draw their
feet up a little, and so pass a pleas
gup night. Do you ?
Site Ittena f ista
IF. A. SING DETOX. El A Prop'r.
VOL 5.
THE MAGNOLIA.
Stainless white petals 1
Corolla of snow !
Gold iu tho center,
All richness and glow,
Bath for Titania,
Of crystal inn dew,
Couch to lull Oberon
Under tho blue !
Cradle for humming bird!
Butterfly’s nest!
Fountain of nectar
For honey-bees’ quest!
Goblet for Ganymedo
Full of the wine
Brewed by Aurora
With lingers diviuc !
Chalice of spicery,
Fit for a queen !*
Crowuinga column
Of exquisite green ;
Cup to bo held in
The hand of a bride,
I'nre as thy perfume,
An emperors pride!
Flower to bo laid on
Tho cross of a tomb 1
Tve of the spirit
In Paradise —bloom !
Therefore I gather thee,
Lovely and pure;
Speak from this graveyard
Of jot s that endure.
Wise Words from the Savannah
News.
In tins country, the first and fun
damental rule is that in all political
matters the wisl of the majority shall
govern. This is a good rule and has
been found to work well, though
there may have been occasionally ox
ceptiens, which, however, like all ex
ception?, strengthen the general rule.
That is the rule of the national Idem
ocratic party. In questions of minor
importance it grants the largest lib
erty, but on questions of political life
and existence it requires union and
unity. Because we may differ from
the majority of tLe party, we cannot
honorably or honestly desert the par
ty, and give aid and comfort to its
enemies—the Radicals! One man
thinks Governor Colquitt incompetent
and not, otherwise, fit to be Govern
or, But two other men equally as
capable ot forming a judgment say
that lie is. We arc not infallible,
and must therefore, by the logic ot
common sense, yield our opinion to
that of the mojorily, or, wo act with
eoucvitof our superior knowledge,
and faetiously. Voltaire says that
“men have a secret propensity for
factions; if we cannot cabal, pursue
and do one another a prejudice for
crowns, tiaras and mitres, we fall to
gether by the ears for a dancer or a
musician.”
In this quotation we recognize the
natural tendency to faction that ani
mated the minority in the recent At
lanta convention. Governor Colquitt
had within a few votes the requisite
two thirds to nominate him, and the
opposing votes, a little over one
tihrd, were scattered between four
candidates, not one of whom had a
popular showing in the convention
that was worth a penny whistle. Yet
this inconsequent compound of small
political capitalists arrogantly de
manded that the man of two-thirds,
neatly, of the people, shall be with
drawn, and they, the one-third, shall
dictate his nomination.
Not one of the minority leaders,
nor all combined, nor their respective
adherents, could form a paity of over
one hundred and twenty-niue ; and
yet the people’s choice by lioo hun
dred and twenty must give way to the
dissenlinents.’ Could anything more
preposterous he conooived? The
only recollection of anything like it
that occurs to us is that of the con
fined lunatic, who on being asked by
a visitor to the asylum ivhy he was
there, replied: “I maintained that
all the world was mad except my
self, and all the woikl said I was the
lunatic, and having the majority they
oariied the day, and that is why I
am here.”
Hut'eveu the lunatic did not act so
wildly as the minority. They made
yv DEMOCHATIO FA MITTS' NEWSPAPER,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 25, 1880.
no explanation of their course. They
gavo uo reason at al. but took the
ground that, in their opinion, Genera;
Colqnilt was not lit to be governor,
and, therefore, lie should not be nom
mated. They regarded not the vital
struggle in which wo are engaged for
tho preservation of the republic, and
our Democratic libeitics. They did
not hesitate ono moment to sacrifice
the unity and harmony of the Dem
ocracy to their arrogant assumption.
Nor did it cost them a pang to open
wide the gates, by their desertion, for
an influx of Radical capital and
speakers. And they did not hesitate
to proc'aini, by their action, that they
were willing to incur the risk of the
election of a Radical governor rather
than acquiesce in tho will of the ma
jority iu lavor of Governor Colquitt.
Chemical Manufactures in Philadel
phia.
Scientific American.]
One of the great industries of Phil
adelphia is the manufacture of chem
icals, or of articles for the produc
tion of which chemical processes are
necessary. Many of these take the
form of urugs and medicines for the
wholesale trade, not including spe
cifies. Others are acids, alkalies,
and chemical agents used in other
manufactures. White lead and
chemical paints are also included.
The line of distinction is not easy to
define to the gene ral reader, though
well recognized in the trade, and it
docs not include the body of products
known as dyes, paints, and midi
ciues, although closeiy related to
them. As so defined, the chemical
mnnufature in Philadelphia includes,
says the Public Ledger, about thirty
establishments, whose annual pro
duct has risen from $6,152,380 in
1870, to $10,000,000 in 1875, and sl2-
000,000 in 1877, and as nearly as now
may lie estimated, about $12,000,000
in value f r the year just closed.
They give employment to about 2,000
persons —a relatively small number
for the values produced—and have
attained a position of supremacy in
their respective departments which
renders them reasonably secure.
The drug and medicinal products are
the largest, eight‘or ten establish
ments producing $8,000,000 in value
quinine, morphia, preparations of io
dine, bromine, etc., with other stand
ard pharmaceutical preparations.
These are now the basis and body of
applied pharmacy in this country,
and are likely to increase even more
rapidly in tha future. On the side of
standard medicines used as specifics
almost as much more would be en
tirely appropriate as munfacture.
The drug and chemical work insist
on the distinction, however, and in a
calculation of $12,000,000 production
they are not included. They would
reach G,000,000 at least, and under
the general name of proprietary med
icines, footed a total of $5,400,105 in
1870.
Milk-Yeast Bread,—Take one
cupful of milk, add hot water to
warm the milk; mix sifted flour to
make a thin sponge; let stand over
night in a warm place; in tho morn
ing add one half cupful of butter,
and flour to Sufficiently stiffen for
bread, kneading thoroughly; till pans
halt full, and, in a warm place, allow
tho loaves to rise to the top of the
pans; bake in a steady oven, not too
hot, one hour.
Population ol St. Louis. —Tho offi
cial returns of the census enumera
tors show the total population of St.
Louis to be 833,577, which is an in
crease of only 22,713 over the ocn
sus of iB7O.
Teaching men morals is as though
I had a clock that would not go, and
I turned round one of the cog-wheels.
But faith takes the key and winds up.
the mainspring and the whole thing
runs on steadily.—Spurgeon.
The College Graduate
Sho was a school girl graduate,
With school girl* used to play;
She got lief sheep skin and a great
Big sixty-cent hcqnet.
V\ hen she went homo her dear mamma
Met her with a pleasant look,
Anil said, “Now’Mary Ann Li e in
And take my place as cook.
But Mary Ann popped up her nose
And said “Mamma, I Wont !
What! Como out of school and cook !
Von Let your Loots 1 if .ft.”
That anxious, overbearing ma,
Like any mother should,
Hit Mary Ann beneath tho car
With a groat Lig stick of wood.
So now that sweet girl graduate,
With pleasure iu her eye,
Can wash a shirt or cook a steak
Or make a dish-rag fly.
Her mother taught her what it was
To lead a useful life,
And forty chaps are running th< re—
Each wants her for his —cook.
A BUSY FAMILY.
A case of assault and battery in
which a farmer’s sons were plaint ft
and defendant respectively, was on
trial in Justice aliey, Detroit, and
the plaintiff’s lawyer was very anx
ious to make out that the defendant's
family must have seen the fight
which took place just outside the
kitchen door. The defendant’s moth
er being on tho stand, the lawyer
began:
“ tVell, where were you when the
first blow was struck ?”
“Down cellar skimming milk and
tying cloths over my preserve jars,”
site replied.
“Where was your husband ?”
“He was in the barn mending the
harness and greasing the wagon.’’
“Where was jour daughter, Sa
rah ?”
“Sarah was in the norlli room
changing the ‘pillow cases on the
spare bed.”
“And where was Jane ?’’
“June? She hud run over to a
neighbor’s to borrow some coffee and
nutmeg
“Let’s see! Haven’t you a sister
living with you ?”
“Yes, sir. She was sewing carpet
rags up stairs."
“Ah! sho was? You have a
younger son name Charles, haven't
you ?’’
“Yes, sir, and he was salting sheep
across the road."
“Just so. You are a very busy
family, I see. I suppose even the
dog was very hu3y just at this par
ticular moment?”
*Yes, sir, lie was. Old Rose was
down at tho gate looking towards
Detroit for one-horse lawyers !”
That closed her testimony and set
tled him more than a toot.
Miss Abigail Jenkins was the post
mistress at Waterford, Fulton coun
ty, Ills., in 1857. ami the following is
an exact copy of the first letter she
sent to Washington as a quarterly
report from tho Waterford postofllce:
Waterford, fnlton co ills July the
0 1857. — muster james Buekanin,
president of the United States, Dear
Sur Rean required by the instruc
tions of the post office to report
quarterly, I now foolfil! that pleasin
duty by reporting as follows. The
Harvesting lias been going on perty
well and most of the nabors have got
their cuttin about dun, wheat is hard
ly at average croponrollin lans, coin
is yellowish and corn wont out more
than ten or fittecn booshils to the
alter the helth of the communitie i3
only Tolerably moesils and colery
have broke out in about 2 and a half
miles from heah, thair air a powerful
awaken of the subjeo of religiun in
the pot ts naborhood and many seals
r- oeir. made to know their sins
forgiven miss nancy Smith a neer na
ber had trios day before yesterdy
this is about all I know and have to
report tho present quarter gtv my re
spects to Mrs Buekanin and subscrib
myselt yours Trooley, abigail Jen
kins, p. m. —Boston Post.
• ♦♦♦ ■■ ■
The action of the minority in the
late Gubernatorial convention caused
much excitement in Milledgeville.
A Loadvillo Joke-
Life in Leadville, Cob, is full of t x.
citcment even for a barber. The
other day a citizen named Plug
strolled into a bather’s establishment
where there were two chairs, both
full, and fourteen men waiting. If
die-re is one tiling that Plug despises
it is waiting around while a lot of
oilier fellows get shaved. He figured
on how to avoid it, and espying a
friend iii one of the chairs he sloped
up to him anil spoke a few words in
a low tone. Suddenly he became ex
cited. Addressing his friend he
cried: “You third-rate mule-whack
er I'll have your gore!’’ And the
friend yelled back: '‘You greaser,
I’ll shot you full of holes t’ “I can
shoot first,” yelled Plug, drawing Ids
revolver. “I’ll let you see yon can’t,”
roared his friend, leaping from his
chair. By this time a scene of wild
excitement was taking place ia the
shop. The whole fourteen waiting
customers were wildly struggling to
get out before the shooting commenc
ed. The man in the other chiir,
without stopping !o wipe the lather
fiom his face or remove the apron
about him, leaped from the window
upon die Lead of a policeman, who
at once arrested him tor a madman.
One of the barbers had bump
ed his head terribly and got
his mouth full of dust crawling under
a sofa, and the other barber was
promptly concealed beh nd a barrel
in the closet. As soon as the shop
was cleared the two friends ceased
threatening each other, put up their
pistols and after a hearty laugh they
coaxed the barbers to come out and
shave them. Plug tried to explain to
the head barber that it was ail a
joke. “But,” said the barber, “you’re
a fighting man.” “No,’’ said Plug,
“I am a regular coward an(l couldn’t
lick a mouse.’’ “Then, by George,’’
yelled the barber, “you’ve driven
over $5 worth of trade away from me
and I’ll take the value out of your
hide!,” And he got in several lusty
blows on Plug before the latter could
offer to settle. And, somehow, Plug
doesen’t think it was such a good
joke alter all.
Coffee as a Disinfectant.
The rootah Observer, a paper pub
lished in India, states that recent ex
periments made in that country have
proved that roasted coffee is one of
the most powerful disinfectants, not
only rendering animal and vegetable
effluvia innocuous, but actually de
stroying them, A room in which
meat in an advanced state of decom
position had been kept for some time
was instantly deprived ol all smell on
being carried through it an open
coffee-roaster containing a pound of
newly-roasted coffee. In another room
the effluvia occasioned by the clear
ing out of a cesspool was completely
removed within half a minute by the
use ot three ounces of fresh coffee.—
Tho way in which coffee is used as a
disinfectant is drying the raw beam
then pouuding it in a mortar, and af
terward roasting the powder on a
moderately-heated iron plate untd it
assumes a dark hue. The coffee must,
however, be pure, as chickory pos -
sesses no deodorizing power.
WHEAT SOWING.
Preparing a soil for wheat is of lar
more importance than many farmers
suppose. Thorough preparations of
the soil is the sooret of success in
wheat culture. Summer fallowing
usually gives the best results,but it is
not always practicable, in which case
tno nearest approach to it should be
made that is possible. Two plowings
are better than one in the majority
of cases, and where it is possible we
believe it will pay abundantly in the
increase in yield and quality of tho
crop. A mellow but compact soil has
been found to produce the best prep
aration for wheat.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2 00
WHAT TO SAY.
Sny “I would rather walk,” and
not I lmd rather walk.’’
Sny “I doubt not ti nt I Khali,' nnd
not “but I shall,”
Say “for you and mo,” and not
“for you and I.”
Say “whether I be present or not,’’
and not “present or no.’’
Say “not that I know,” and not
,‘that I know of,’’
Say “rctiHn it to roe,” and not
“return it back to me.”
Say “I seldom see him,” and not
“seldom or never see.”
Say “fewer friends,” and not “less
friends. ”
Say if I mistake not,” and not “if
I am not mistaken.”
Say “game is plentiful,” and not
“is plenty.’’
Say “I am weak in comparison
with you,” and not “to you.”
Say “it rains very fast,” and not
“very hard.”
Say “it is primitive sense,” and
not “primary sense.'’
Say “he was noted for his vio
lence,” and not “he was a man noto
-1 ions for violence.”
Say “thus much is true," and not
“this much is trye.”
Say “I lifted it,” and not “I lifted
it up.”
And last, but not least, say “I
take my paper and pay for it in ad
vance,”
BE HONEST.
I’ll tell you, brethren, be henest In
your dealings; take no advantage,
even of a child. Be conscientious in
your bargains.
Have a single eye and o, single
heart. w
Seek not to be shrewd. Be not
ashamed to be called simple. And
let me tell you a secret, which ought
not to boa secret, seeing it is written
in the scriptures, that your whole
body may be full of light, ami this in
every kind. You will actually see
further and see clercb than shrewd
ami cunning men; and you will be
less liable to be .duped than they,
provided you add to this another part
of character which is proper to an
honest man—namely, a resolution to
protect honesty, and to dicotinten
ance every kind of fraud.
A cunning man is never a firm
man, but an honest man is; a double
minded man is always unstable; a
man of faith is firm as a rock. I tell
you there is a sacred connection be
tween honesty and faith; honesty is
faith applied to worldly things, and
faith is honesty quickened by the
spirit to the use of heavenly tLings
—Edward Iriyixo.
CENTRAL RILROAD.
We arc glad to chronicle the fact
that the business of our great corpor
ation, the Central Railroad Company,
in increasing and flourishing. Con
trary to the usual custom of the com
pany during the dull summer season,
the entire force in the mechanical and
other departments of the company
have been constantly employed.
There liavo been no temporary dis
charges or working on half time. Ev
erybody is busy and additional me
chanical labor has been employed.
The workshops are veritable bee hives
and the hum of industry resounds
throughout the extensive establish
ments lrorn enrly morn till dewy eve.
All along the line there comes the
word of plenty of work, steady em
ployment and good pay, At the
commodious wharves, also, we
find evidences ol unremitting labor,
and improvements are being pushed
forward to completion before the
openening of the new commercial
year.
Ex-Gov. Ilershcl V. Johnson died at
his residence in Jefferson county, on
the 16th inst.. in the sixty-eigth year
of his age*
THE WATER WAGTAIL.
Where mint and Hedges tangle
Murmurs the mill wheel jumdn—
In placid lake;
On the pebbly shingle
Tho wMahers’ pnddlo jingle
An echo make.
Lady mistress wruggletni!
t mires her Hjinttod furthingalo
In watery gWv,
Above, below, each leathered tress.
Shaking with maiden euppleness-
Cequetish luns!;
She seems, the beauty grand,.
Leader of homo fairy l and,
Neves stilh
Who marks the rhjHithir: drum,
Oi the puddle and the hum
Of the will.
Her careless gmee profound
Attracts- holds us spell bound 1 -
One follows fust..
By riverside and plain
Her caprice leads us—vain.
bhe dies at last.!
Sho scurries 'long tho bench
And fliitetb out of of reach,
Like our desires,
Which all dead, all day outstrip
And from our grasp are fain to slip,
Till hope e'en tires*
Georgia Affairs.
NO 49
Valdosta Times: J' W. Willis has
laid on our table a stalk ol coni vvi.ttos
ten well developed ears.
Mr. George R. Mcßcc, of Valdos
ta, Georgia, lias been tuy ing the ex
periment of shipping ripe figs to New
York. The figs arrived in good con-,
dilion and sold for 30 C9U per
quart.
A negro boy about 12 years old
was swinging on the rear of a mov
ing ear in Home a lew days ago, ami
fell. Tbe ears ran over his foot ami
ankle eempletely crushing the foot
off.
Thomasville Post: We adviso
home candidates not io invest in tho
CalquittLester division in Atlanta,
but to go to work to heal the breach
It is not a division upon principle,
but upon personalism, which will
play out with the exhaustion of per
sonal animosity. Let us go forward
as if nothing had happened.
■ The Sandersville Herald says: Tur
nips arc looking well and cotton,
is in an excellent condition, al
though in many sections of tho
county it has been materially injured
iby the drought and is now suffering
from what planters call the Black
rust, We see some fields lull of
open cotton ami ready for picking.
Marietta Journal: Sunday last, In
Milton county, Mr. Loyd found on a
raft near Grogan’s ferry, in the Chub
tahooehee river, a dead white man,
naked and unknown, tbe flesh having
fallen from Lis laCe rendering him
unrecognizable. He is supposed to
be tho grandson of one Henry Smith,
who has been missing for about ono
Week. “
A woman of bad repute, from Jack
sonville, Fla., succeeded a leW days
ago, ill inducing two young ladies,
in Savannah to desert their homes of
comfort, respectability and virtue for
one of degradation. Telegrams
from Savannah to chief of police in
Jacksonville secured their arrest just
as they were stepping hi a pheatod.
The parents dcpaited immediately td
bring tbe'r girls back.
Au Excbango says: Holmes Mur
ray, a little Irwin county boy, is said
to be a rival of Biind Torn). He
came to spend some time with his
uncle, Dr. D Bagiev, of Harris coun
ty a short time since. Never having
seen a piano before, ho desired to'
know what manner of beadstead it
was. The top was raised and expla
nation mado to to the little fellow,
whereupon he sat down and immedi
plnyed “There is a Happy Band.”
Tho Hamilton Journal says: “The
musical tallent ol the boy had 1 been'
remarked before by-friends, but
none were prepared for this seeming
institution.
Butler Herald: On last Saturday
evening a*very painful and almost fa
tal accident happened to Mrs. Rob
ert Wilson, in the western portion of
the county. While Mr. Wilson and
his family were riding in a wagon*,
along tue road, the front wheel struck
a stump and immediately sprung front
the axle. In the sudden fall of the
wagon Mrs. Wilson was plunged
headforemost to the ground, with a
young babe in her arms, breaking
two of her lower ribs, one on each
sided her body,and otherwise severc-
Jy bruising her. The b,.be was not in
the least hurt Mr. Smith, her at
tending physician, Jlhraks that hw
will